Effector-triggered immune response in Arabidopsis thaliana is a quantitative trait

Genetics

Volumn 204, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 337-353

  Iakovidis, Michail ^a   Teixeira, Paulo J P L ^a   Exposito Alonso, Moises ^c   Cowper, Matthew G ^a   Law, Theresa F ^b   Liu, Qingli ^a   Vu, Minh Chau ^a   Dang, Troy Minh ^a   Corwin, Jason A ^a   Weigel, Detlef ^c   Dangl, Jeffery L ^b   Grant, Sarah R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis thaliana; Genetics of immunity; HopAM1; Pseudomonas syringae; QTL; Type III effectors

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; HOPAM1 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRULENCE FACTOR; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN;

ALLELE; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELL DEATH; CENTROMERE; CHLOROSIS; CHROMOSOME 4; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE RESISTANCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HERITABILITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; HOST; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MERISTEM; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PLANT IMMUNITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; TYPE III SECRETION SYSTEM; ARABIDOPSIS; GENETICS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PLANT DISEASE; PLANT GENE; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; GENES, PLANT; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; PHENOTYPE; PLANT DISEASES; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 84986292043     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 19432631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.116.190678     Document Type: Article

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